Fred Hoyle

Quotes

1. Before anyone starts criticising, let me say that I know it’s a preposterous idea and I wouldn’t suggest it for a moment if the alternative weren’t even more outrageously preposterous.

   p. 131

2. 

   Viewed from a wholly logical point of view the bearing and rearing of children is a thoroughly unattractive proposition. To a woman it means pain and endless worry. To a man it means extra work extending over many years to support his family. So, if we were wholly logical about sex, we should probably not bother to reproduce at all. Nature takes care of this by making us utterly and wholly irrational.

   p. 154

3. 

   The two men were mentally too dissimilar for more than a half hour of conversation between them to be possible.

   p. 65

4. 

   “Not everyone views the government with quite the same disrespect that you do.”

   “No, more’s the pity.”

   p. 71

5. 

   Ifs and buts are the stuff of politics, Mr. Parkinson. As a scientist I am concerned with facts not with motives, suspicions, and airy-fairy nothingness.

   p. 70

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